By RON KANTOWSKI
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
This place is pretty cool.
Toronto's John Morra lines up a shot against Las Vegas during a World Professional Billiard League game at the WPBL Arena, 6745 Surrey St., in Las Vegas on SundayPhoto Courtesy of CHASE STEVENS/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
That’s the first thing you notice after...
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The 6th season of the 404 Tour has wrapped up at Bigwigs Billiards in Newmarket. Sixty-four qualified players filled the double elimination 9-ball bracket. The two top ranked players on the Tour, John Morra and Erik Hjorleifson, were not in attendance as they are currently representing the "Toronto Blue Sharks" in Las Vegas in the World Professional Billiard League. The absence of these two gre...
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Team New York Pride
The World Professional Billiard League launched the inaugural 2013 season at the WPBL Arena in Las Vegas, NV last night to a packed house. The season’s first match-up featured the New York Pride against the Atlanta Scorpions.
The WPBL’s first evening of play saw the New York Pride emerging victorious. In tea...
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May 30, 2013 (Colorado Springs, CO): Str8 Shots, CueSports International (CSI), and the Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) have been working together to revitalize a billiards program within the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. In the 1930’s and 40’s, professional players such as Jimmy Caras, began doing shows in Boys Clubs of America and sparked an interest for the game with the youth. Ben Nartz...
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Chicago, IL - The wait is over. In November of this year, the world's greatest women players will be showcased like never before in an event that Dragon Promotions has been working on for nearly 2 years. It will be East versus West as Dragon Promotions is thrilled to announce its newest event creation, The Queens Cup!
The Queens Cup will be the very first time that the best women in the West...
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Chris Dempsey & Tom Theriault
On Sunday May 25-26th, Dooly's in Moncton New Brunswick hosted the 2013 provincial 8-Ball championships. A strog field of 57 players were in attendance. After an early loss, Chris Dempsey won 9 consecutive matches on the b-side to face Tom Theriault in the finals. This match went right down...
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Mazhirina takes the crown
St. Johann, Austria: With a strong performance, Ana Mazhirina (RUS) conquered the crown of the Ballazzo Women's Euro-Tour in St. Johann/Pg. in Austria over local star Jasmin Ouschan (AUT) with 7:4.
Mazhirina already played a very good semi-final match with Ina Kaplan (GER) where she clearly remained the upper hand with 7:3. Ouschan had more problems with Nataliya Seroshta...
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St. Johann, Austria: The Ballazzo Women Euro-Tour is down to the semi- final matches. The favorite players have not let their fans down and all made their way through the field so far.
Ana Mazhirina (RUS)
Ana Mazhirina (RUS) dealt with Ewa Bak (POL) 7:2 and then eliminated Louise Furberg (SWE) with 7:3 in the quarter-final matc...
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"The Terminator" leaves no chance to Kazakis
"The Terminator" Niels Feijen (NED)
St. Johann, Austria: With a very powerful and impressive performance, Niels Feijen (NED) won the final match of the Austrian Open against Alexander Kazakis (GRE) with 9:4.
Just like in the semi-final, Feijen was in absolute top condition. He was...
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Two clear results and an upset in the semis
St. Johann, Austria: Niels "The Terminator" Feijen (NED) outclassed his opponent Petri Makkonen (FIN) with 9:1.
Feijen was as dangerous as dynamite in this match. Though he missed a shot in the beginning, he did not let that destroy his focus and came back even stronger. He ran out 80% of his own breaks and missed only one more shot during the whole matc...
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Women's tournament started today in Austria
Petri Makkonen (FIN)
St. Johann, Austria: Petri Makkonen (FIN) will be playing the semi-final match at the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open. He defeated Tomasz Kaplan (POL) with 6:9 and Phil Burford (GBR) in the quarter-final with 9:4 even. He came across very focussed and rock solid and...
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Many close results at the Austrian Open in St. Johann
St. Johann, Austria: In a quick match that lasted 55 minutes only, Nikos Ekonomopoulos (GRE) creamed Chris Melling (GBR) with 9:2.
Nikos Ekonomopoulos (GRE)
All was good and even after four rack. At a score of 2:2, Melling seemed to lose his game and Ekonomopoulos showed no...
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Chicago, Illinois- The Association of Billiard Professionals is pleased to announce World 9-Ball Champion and two time US Open Champion Darren Appleton of England as the newest elected Board Member of the ABP. Appleton will help the pro tour and its players discuss and vote on a variety of issues in the sport including ABP Professional Guidelines that are set forth by the top professional pla...
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HOF Souquet on his way home
St. Johann, Austria: Nick van den Berg (NED), EPBF Player of the Year 2012, has just won his spot in the single elimination stage of the final 32 players at the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open with a 9:6 victory over Mustapha Trabelsi (TUN).
Nick van den Berg (NED)
Trabelsi was completely unheralded bu...
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Braun eliminates Jasmin Ouschan from the tournament
St. Johann, Austria: Ivica Putnik (CRO) just hammered Mats Nygren (SWE) with 9:3 and made sure that he will stay in the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open 2013.
Right in his first match, Putnik received a 4:9 defeat from Konrad Piekarski (POL). He entered the loser's side but he did not want to depart from St. Johann without leaving his footprints in...
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Austrian Federation revealed research results in presentation
St. Johann, Austria: Former World Champion Oliver Ortmann (GER) defeated unheralded Steffen Wolff (NOR) in the second winner's round with 9:5.
Both players had already one victory under the belt. Ortmann won over Roger Lysholm (NOR) 9:3 this afternoon. In the same round, Wolff took the match over Jorge Tinoco (POR) with 9:6. On paper, O...
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Ekonomopoulos through to next winner's round
St. Johann, Austria: In a pretty one-sided match, last year's Austrian Open Champion Nikos Ekonomopoulos (GRE) beat Austrian senior player Johann Wallner with 9:3.
The match definitely did not have the expected quality. Probably Wallner was too nervous and Ekonomopoulos was not focussed enough. However, both opponents missed several shots and played sec...
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Ouschan teaches a lesson to Wrobel
St. Johann, Austria: In his first match of the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open 2013, Nr. 1 ranked player Albin Ouschan (AUT) outclasses Krzysztof Wrobel (POL) with 9:1.
In Formula One, this would have counted as a "start-to-finish" victory. Ouschan dominated the match from the very beginning. He did not even have to come up with his A-game. After ten racks, the cle...
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Players & Fans,
Our final regular season stop of the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour will take place on June 1 & 2 at Snookers Billiards Bar & Grill in Providence RI. This will once again be our third event at Snookers this season and we all owe owners Regina & Steve Goulding many thanks for their continued generous support. With this $2,000 added event it raises their total added monies this season to...
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I'd like to share this with you as you decide your votes for this year's inductee(s) for the BCA Hall of Fame.
Our post about the Rodney Morris nomination went viral with almost 20,000 reach (not paid) and 120+ shares in a day.
I think most would agree that he should go in at the age of 42 now. Some reason he was skipped over in his first year of eligibility at 40, and was only on ballot last yea...
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